Ukrainian composer, pianist, musicologist.
Biography.
Graduated from the Lviv Music College and Kyiv Conservatory and postgraduate studies (classes of professors: composition - M. Skoryk, piano - V. Vorobyov, musicology - I. Lyashenko) in piano. He was an intern at the University of Würzburg (Germany, 2004). Doctor of Arts (2001).
Since 1992, he has been teaching at the Departments of Composition and Music History of the Lviv Music Academy, and is the Head of the Department of Philosophy of Arts. He works as a composer in the genres of symphonic, opera, ballet, choral, chamber, instrumental, vocal and theater music. His compositions have been included in the repertoire of leading Ukrainian ensembles and performers (Kyiv Camerata Ensemble, Kyiv Saxophone Quartet, Lviv Virtuosi Orchestra, Trembita Chapel, and others), and have been performed in Ukraine and many countries around the world, In particular, at the international festivals Kyiv Music Fest (Kyiv), Contrasts (Lviv), Two Days and Two Nights of New Music (Odesa), Days of Music by Composers of Krakow (Poland), Melos-Etos (Slovakia), Dresden Days of Contemporary Music (Germany). As a pianist, he pays special attention to the performance of Ukrainian music of the XX-XXI centuries, primarily as part of a duet with violinist Lidia Shutko.
Laureate of the Mykola Lysenko All-Ukrainian Piano Competition (1984), winner of the All-Ukrainian Chamber Ensemble Competition (1986). Laureate of the L. Revutsky (1996) and M. Lysenko (2001) State Prizes of Ukraine in Composition. Member of the National Union of Composers of Ukraine and the New Music Association.
Biography.
O. Kozarenko's work was greatly influenced by his long-term cooperation with theater groups, which resulted in music for more than 50 performances. According to musicologist L. Kyianovska, in Kozarenko's fascination with the achievements of the avant-garde of the 1950s and 60s, the composer is interested not so much in the self-sufficient expressiveness of technology as in "the possibility of expressing interesting symbolism with its help," in the course of which arches to biblical, ancient, folklore images, and vivid plot and picture associations emerge.
